Cheers to a Year of Growth
We are grateful for all that we have accomplished alongside our incredible community partners in 2023!
This past year, we welcomed 24 new groups to our fiscal sponsorship program, joined with community at dozens of events led by our partners, were awarded 65 grants for our partners, and created seven new tools for our partners to use in supporting their projects. Read on to learn more.
First on our gratitude list: this spring, we launched new digital tools for our community partners. Our redesigned website includes a members-only Partner Portal, where our partners can access information related to their projects and resources that we have created to help further their success.
There’s also our new Peer-to-Peer Fundraising platform, making it easy to customize a campaign and raise money for our partners’ projects, parks, and public spaces.
Our partners can also work with us to create advocacy campaigns through our New/Mode tool, allowing their supporters to contact Seattle City Councilmembers and other decision makers.
While tools like our Partner Portal are only for our fiscally-sponsored partners, many others are available to everyone! Our Evergreen Team offers the option to support our partners with monthly gifts. You can also see if your employer will Double your Donation, and check out upcoming opportunities in our new Events calendar. We look forward to building out more digital tools for our partners and the public in the year ahead.
Looking back on 2023, we’re also thrilled to be reminded of how incredible the year was for our partners in terms of grant awards and funding. Our partners received 65 new grants totaling $3.9M. A huge, well-deserved investment in our parks and public spaces!
Many of our partners also received awards from Seattle Department of Neighborhoods and Seattle’s Neighborhood Matching Fund (NMF).
Our community partners hosted events of all types this past year, from active opportunities like Tai Chi at Benefit Park to community celebrations like Othello Park International Festival and Alki Beach Pride.
Our partners planned and hosted so many events in parks + public spaces in 2023 that it’s impossible to name them all. We hope you got outside and enjoyed time with community throughout the seasons!
24 new fiscal partners joined our community in 2023! These community-led projects inspire us as we continue to work for equity in public spaces, activated parks + healthy people, neighborhood-based climate solutions, and increased civic engagement and community building.
New partners include:
Ampersand Bikes Club
Ballard Emergency Communication Hubs
Beacon Hill Council and Fir State
Bhutanese Community Resource Center
CANOES
City of Tukwila Parks & Recreation
Duwamish Valley Sustainability Association – Electromobility Project
Friends of Discovery Park
Friends of Leschi-Mt. Baker Traffic Circles
Green Seattle Partnership
Lake City Living Memorial Triangle
Madison Valley Emergency Communications Hub
Meadowbrook Night Out NE 107th Street and Alton
Morgan Junction All-Wheels Association
Othello Park Alliance
Outdoor Asian National
Rainier Beach Link 2 Lake Open Space Committee – Cultural Stage Collective
Rainier Beach Link 2 Lake Open Space Committee – Recreating Henderson
Ravenna South: Building Community and Preparedness
Ridge to River Executive Steering Committee
Slow Your Roll 31st Ave NW
Tai Chi at Benefit Park Group
Tree Action Seattle
West Seattle Alki Beach Pride
We have so much to look forward to in 2024: from the long-awaited openings of the beach at Be’er Sheva Park and the incredible community-inspired Pathways Park to the Greater & Greener Conference and so much more. Keep an eye on our Events Calendar to join us throughout the year!